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    This would never happen under Labour

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/elec...-employed.html

    One radical option being considered is to allow the 600,000 people who sell their services through "one man" companies to opt out of employment.

    Instead of paying 11pc Class 1 National Insurance Contributions (NICS) on their income they would pay the £2.40 a week due under Class 2 NICs, which is paid by the self-employed.

    Mark Prisk, the shadow business minister, said the tax system struggled to cope with people working outside of traditional employment.

    He singled out the Government's IR35 legislation, introduced in 1999 to tackle what was seen as a £900m tax loophole, as particularly unfair.

    "The current government has treated the self-employed disgracefully. More often than not they have treated them as if they are on the fiddle, which is wholly unacceptable. We want to reform the system," he said.


    Keep voting Labour morons.

    #2
    "We are not trying to avoid taxation, we are looking for a fairer, more transparent system."

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      #3
      Anyone doing so would lose the right to statutory redundancy pay, maternity pay and jobseekers' allowance.
      Crafty bastards.
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        #4
        Originally posted by zeitghost
        Remind me again why we were stopped from being self employed in the late 70s?

        And essentially forced to be one man/woman/lizard/dalek/generic alien monster companies?
        Labour were in power then. That's why.
        Cats are evil.

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          #5
          Now we have Labour on the opposition crying crocodile tears against the Tory attacks on the self employed.

          It's almost as if they are all a bunch of deceitful, opportunist, punitive taxing bastards.
          First Law of Contracting: Only the strong survive

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            #6
            Originally posted by _V_ View Post
            Now we have Labour on the opposition crying crocodile tears against the Tory attacks on the self employed.

            It's almost as if they are all a bunch of deceitful, opportunist, punitive taxing bastards.
            Indeed. And what did they make better 1997 to 2010?

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              #7
              Originally posted by AtW View Post
              "We are not trying to avoid taxation, we are looking for a fairer, more transparent system."

              WHS

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                #8
                Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                Indeed. And what did they make better 1997 to 2010?
                UK came close to sharing Gibraltar with Spain | The Independent


                “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                  #9
                  so B'liar would have sold out Gibraltar too?
                  Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by vetran View Post
                    so B'liar would have sold out Gibraltar too?
                    Bleedin' Bremainer, isn't he?
                    “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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